Part I: Section 12 Summary

Kathy and Lester make love until they're too hungry to continue. When Lester goes out for food, she examines the gun he left behind. After coffee the next morning, she hobbles over to her Wednesday cleaning job and calls her lawyer.

Part I: Section 12 Analysis

Kathy remembers having woken up the morning before in the Bonneville, like a refugee, on the street outside her house. She now knows her lawyer Connie Walsh's telephone number as well as she knows her mother's. Although she had earlier referred to herself as "Kathy Lazaro," she now refers to herself as "Kathy Nicolo."